Yeah, the 3800x is cheaper (in Canada), includes a cooler, is only 5 fps lower on average if you play around 120fps, while being up to 40 percent faster in productivity. And better yet, go buy the 3700x and have an actual valid comparison. Nobody should be buying the 3800x. So I'll save over $100 in Canada and get a faster CPU while losing 5 fps, and get a free cooler.
Btw, one game setting change is all it takes to get that 5 fps back, and you won't even notice the difference in image quality. As the other poster said, the only reason there is a slight deficit is clock speeds and inter core latency, and you can see that if you compare against Intel's HEDT lineup which also doesn't have the advantage of the ring bus and which can fall behind AMD even in gaming.
I don't want Intel to be poor value, but they are not even trying. As we all know, the 9900k should be the price of the 9700k, I won't buy Intel until then.